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UNITED "STATES .PATENT OFFICE.

RION GOUDY STINGLEY, OF FRANKLIN, OREGON.

GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 562,102, dated June 16, 1896.

Application filed September 26, 1895. Serial No. 563,732. (No model.)

To all whom, t may concern.-

Be it known that I, RION GoUDY STING- LEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Franklin, in the county of Lane and State of Oregon, have invented a new and useful Gate, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in gates.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of sliding gates, and to provide a simple and inexpensive one, which may be readily operated at a distance from either side of it without dismounting or leaving a vehicle.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a gate constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

1 designates a supporting-frame, having supports or uprights 2 and 3, and provided at its top with a track, composed of a pair of track-bars 4 secured at their terminals to the upper ends of the supports or uprights and connecting the same. The track-bars are spaced apart and have suspended from them a sliding gate 5, which may be of any desired construction and which has at its ends upwardly-extending arms G; and these arms consist of extensions of the end bars of the gate, and pass upward through the space between the track-bars, and have journaled on them rollers 7, which are arranged to run on the track.

The gate is guided and supported in its sliding movement by a pair of horizontally-disposed bars S, arranged at the bottom of the gate and extending in rear of the same, when the gate is closed, and disposed at opposite sides of the gate; and these horizontal bars S are preferably secured to the rear upright support 3, and they form a guide or way to receive the bottom o f the gate.

The opening and closing of the gate 1s effected by front and rear operating ropes or connections 9 and 10, arranged in pairs and supported by front and rear arms 11 and 12, from which the outer terminals of the operating ropes or connections depend. The front pair of operating ropes or connections 9 have their inner terminals connected with the upper end of the front arm 6 of the gate, and these operating-ropes extend forward from the gate and pass through a suitable guide 13, arranged at the front of the track, and then extend from the gate in opposite directions to the outer terminals of the front arms 11 of the supporting-frame. The rear operating ropes or connections have their inner terminals attached to the said front arm 6 of the gate, and they extend rearward and pass through a guide 14, located at the rear end of the track; and these rear operating ropes or connections then extend outward from opposite sides of the gate and depend from the outer terminal of the rear arms 12 of the supporting-frame. A guide 15 is mounted on the rear arm 6 of the gate to receive the rear operating ropes or connections, and the guides may be provided with pulleys and may be of any desired construction, as will be readily understood.

The arms 11 and l2 of the supporting-frame are arranged in pairs, and are provided at their outer terminals with guides 1G, and the outer terminals of the operating-ropes are provided with handles 17 and 18, adapted to be readily grasped by the operator. The rear operating-ropes open the gate and the front ones close it, as will be readily seen.

The front upright 2 operates as a latch-post and is provided with a keeper 19, which is engaged by a latch ,20 when the gate is closed. The latch consists of a spring actuated latch-bar disposed horizontally and pivotally 'mounted on the gate and projecting forward therefrom, and the Vspring 21 is located above the latch-bar and has its front terminal bearing against the latter and its rear terminals secured to one of the rails of the gate.

The latch is automatically operated in the opening of the gate and is connected with the rear operating-ropes by a pair of cords 22 or other suitable connections attached at their lower terminals to the latch and having their upper terminals passing through an eye 23 of IOS) the front arm 6 ofthe gate and connected with the rear operating-ropes. The latch connections may be formed integral with the rear operating-ropes, which may pass through the eye 23 and extend downward to the latch, or separate connections may be employed. As soon as one of the operating-ropes is grasped and drawn downward the latch is rst raised to release the gate, and by continuing the draft on the operating-rope the gateis opened.

The track. bars which have horizontal treads are provided at their Vrear ends with recesses 24C, arranged at their upper faces and adapted, when the gate is open, to receive the rear pair of rollers to form a stop to hold the gate in its open position. This stop will be found necessary when the gate -is employed on a hillside and is arranged at a slight inclination.

l It will be seen that the gate is exceedingly simple and inexpensive in construction7 that it isiadapted to be readily opened and closed by a `person on foot or on horseback or 4in a vehicle, and that it is positive and reliablein its operation and is supported by the guide`- bars S andthe track-bars in its sliding m0vement.

Changes in the forni, proportion, and minor details `of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any advantages of the invention.

lVhat' I claim is- The combination of a supporting-f1ame provided at its top with traclnbars having horizontal treads and provided at their roar ends with recesses lying below the tread of the track-bars and forming shoulders or stops at their front sides,a sliding gate depending from the track-bars and provided with rollers ar `ranged on the latter and adapted, when thc gate is open, to engage the said recesses to prevent the gate from closing, the front and rear guides mounted on the supporting-frame at the top thereof and located at the ends of the track-bars, the front and rear operatingropes located above the track-bars, arranged in pairs and connected with the front of the gate and extending forward and rearward therefrom to the ends of the track-bars and passing through 'thesaid guides and extending from opposite sides of the gate, the front RION GOUDY STINGLEY.

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B. E. ARTMAN, J. J. BUTLER. 

